The document discusses various aspects of the talent life cycle from both a job seeker and employer perspective. It addresses questions around skills, career planning, job searches, applications, interviews, onboarding new employees, development opportunities, and challenges that can arise. It also proposes several digital tools that could help with tasks like career assessments, peer support, specialized job boards, recruitment systems, applicant tracking, and onboarding processes.

1. The Talent Life Cycle

2. What skills do I have? What am I good at? What kind of job do I want? What kind of job could I get? What kind of skills & qualifications do we need ? What are the key functions of the role? What values and attitudes are critical to success? What kind of person are we looking for?

3. JCP isn’t much use, I’ll try the internet. There are so many job boards now - Which job board would work for me? Actually, how do job boards work? We’ve always used local papers and agencies - why change? Which job board would work for us? Rejecting candidates takes time/money – how do we get only relevant candidates Is there a Talent Pool of candidates we can search, rather than advertise?

5. I hope my new Employer helps me do well. What happens if I’m not good at the job? What do I need to do to get promoted? Groan. It’s difficult if a new recruit isn’t working out. How can we develop new skills in our wider workforce? How can we build staff engagement through skills development and career planning.

6. Online Career Diagnostic & Planning Tools Skills & experience stock-taking; Careers IAG; Benefits calculators; Job search aggregator

7. P2P Job Seeker Support Platform Prototype “Retooled” as used following the closure of Longbridge

9. ex-offenders,

11. response management

12. short-listing

13. interview scheduling

15. SME Onboarding Platform Help employers (especially SMEs) onboard new recruits successfully